ArmInfo.International Festival Yerevan Jazz Fest 2017 starts on October 26 in Yerevan.
The festival will last until November 3. During these days, such famous jazzists as composer and producer Marcus Miller from the USA, pianist and composer Gonzalo Rubalcaba from Cuba, Russian saxophonist Igor Butman and many others will come to the capital of Armenia. Armenian jazz musicians will perform on stage with them.
So, on October 26 in the JCC. Karen Demirchian will host a concert of Marcus Miller. October 29 in the Concert Hall. Aram Khachaturyan will perform the Armenian State Jazz Orchestra led by Armen Hysnunts, as well as the famous Armenian jazzman Levon Malkhasyan, saxophonist Igor Butman and Ani Arzumanyan from France. On October 30, Levon Malkhasyan, Alexis Avagyan, Mikhail Voskanyan and friends, Vazgen Asatryan and Lusine Sargsyan will perform at the Dramatic Theater named after V.Achemyan in Gyumri.
November 1 in the Concert Hall. Aram Khachaturian will perform Artaud Tunboyadjian and Armenian Navy Band, Artak Nersisyan, Marina Hakobyan, Paco Sar from Senegal. On November 3, the festival will be closed at the same venue, where Gonzalo Rubbalcaba, the quintet Vahagn Hayrapetyan and Alexis Avagyan will perform.
The Jazz Fest annual international festival is held on the initiative of the Armenian Jazz Association. For two years, jazz industry professionals such as Richard Bona, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Theo Crocker, Nino Katamadze, Hubert Tubs, Joss Ston and others have come to the Armenian capital in the capital of Armenia. Yerevan Jazz Festival in 2017 is dedicated to the founder of the famous brand Zilidjian Avedis Zilidzhyan.
ArmInfo. In one of the combat positions of the Armenian Armed Forces located in the northward direction of the Armenian-Azerbaijani state border, as a result of the violation of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces ceasefire, RA Chaplin Armenovich Markaryan (born in 1998), a soldier of the Armed Forces of Armenia, was killed.